Amedy Coulibaly

Amedy Coulibaly (1982-9 January 2015) was a member of the Buttes-Chaumont Network of Algerian terrorists in France. He took 19 hostages in a Supercacher (Super Kosher) grocery store in Porte de Vincennes along with his wife Hayat Boumeddiene, and was killed.

Biography
Amedy Coulibaly was born in 1982 to an Algerian family in France. He was the husband of Hayat Boumeddiene, another Algerian from France, and the two became radical Islamists after hearing from radical Muslim preachers. He joined the Buttes-Chaumont Network, an Islamist terrorist group of Paris, and was in contact with Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, two other terrorists. On 8 January 2015 he killed policewoman Clarissa Jean-Philippe in Montrouge and met up with Hayat in Porte de Vincennes, where they took 19 hostages in a Supercacher (Super Kosher) grocery store. On 9 January, 20 police stormed the store and killed Coulibaly, although Boumeddiene fled, armed and extremely dangerous.